OLD SOCK VS. FORK IN THE ROAD: Which Album Cover Has The Most IDGAF Old Dude Swag

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See you in hell "Rust Never Sleeps"! "E.C. Was Here" is my new jam!

chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link

what is that against neil's door anyway

a dalek

Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link

i can't tell if whatever is against neil's door is leaning or affixed to it. like maybe it's some 2x4's he nailed to the door after he kicked it in the previous night and made a hole.

christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link

is that a dog against the door?

a stuffed dog maybe?

see, i get the feeling neil thought this crazy old man photo would be a great cover for his crazy old man music, really set it off, get people looking at it, no mistake

i get the feeling it never occurred to clapton that anyone would object to title old sock in goofball font with vacay pic

careful consideration is not very swag.

goole, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link

Plus, Neil already did the IDGAF SWAG album cover with the cover of "Silver & Gold" taken with a damn Game Boy

chr1sb3singer, Friday, 8 March 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link

we need to talk about Clapton's Jimmy Buffet vibe ie THIS IS WHY HE LOSES

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link

fork in the road cover is a youtube screenshot right? #swag

tylerw, Friday, 8 March 2013 21:05 (eleven years ago) link

jimmy buffet has mad swag tho; he's commodified an entire way of life

mookieproof, Friday, 8 March 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link

Clapton :P

The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 8 March 2013 21:17 (eleven years ago) link

Clapton had his pic taken on Tanned Penis Island shortly before Sting's house burned.

Vol. 3: The Life & Times of E. "Boom" Carter (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 March 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link

hahah

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 21:26 (eleven years ago) link

Neil wins on handwritten font alone

― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), 8. maaliskuuta 2013 20:34

neil does have the most iconic handwriting...

― u r the best magician ever. my bad levitate me pls (upper mississippi sh@kedown), 8. maaliskuuta 2013 20:4

someone should turn neil's handwriting into an actual font.

― fact checking cuz, 8. maaliskuuta 2013 20:57

I think the writing on the cover already is a font. They try to hide it by putting a different "n" in the word "Young", but other than that, all the recurring letters are identical.

Tuomas, Friday, 8 March 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link

yeah yr right
actually hiring some designer to make him his own font would be a TOTAL neil move

scroll down to the bottom here for a couple downloadable neil fonts:

http://www.thesongdog.de/rust.php?cont=art

christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 8 March 2013 22:24 (eleven years ago) link

I voted Clapton because he looks like the bigger cock. I hate him.

C: (crüt), Friday, 8 March 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link

crut knows what's up

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 March 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link

Clapton missed a golden opportunity to make the "L"s in the title little pictures of old socks. He still would suck to death.

today's tom soy yum, mean mean thai (Spectrist), Friday, 8 March 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link

Unless that font is actually crusty, stiffened old socks nailed together. He would then suck slightly less to death.

today's tom soy yum, mean mean thai (Spectrist), Friday, 8 March 2013 22:55 (eleven years ago) link

Re: Old Sock - If I remember correctly, when Clapton released the Journeyman album, the review in Musician Magazine was "Well he wasn't going to call it Hack, was he?"

Hideous Lump, Saturday, 9 March 2013 06:27 (eleven years ago) link

Xgau, actually:

Journeyman [Duck/Reprise, 1989]
What did you expect him to call it--Hack? Layla and 461 Ocean Boulevard were clearly flukes: he has no record-making knack. So he farms out the songs, sings them competently enough, and marks them with his guitar. Which sounds kind of like Mark Knopfler's. B-

Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Saturday, 9 March 2013 06:41 (eleven years ago) link

Neil's cover precisely nails that found-object outsider art mystique that chillwavers and underground noise artists have been fetishizing for 10+ years

STILL showing up the kids at their own game in your fifth decade & counting = swag as fuuuuuuuuck

Josh and D.A.M. (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 9 March 2013 07:51 (eleven years ago) link

Project high living yacht rock fantasies onto Eric all you want; his cover looks as swag as Stephen Stills

Josh and D.A.M. (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 9 March 2013 07:53 (eleven years ago) link

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/c/crosby-stills-nash/album-csn.jpg

"I'm on a boat motherfucker take a look at me"

earlnash, Saturday, 9 March 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xogiUUMy_RU

i apologize if it's already been acknowledged but neil's cover is a screencap from the title track's video, in which he plugs headphones into an apple and shakes it at us while lip syncing.

Neil by a mile.

da croupier, Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:03 (eleven years ago) link

I feel like this cover is just more of Clapton wishing he was as cool as JJ Cale

brimstead, Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:15 (eleven years ago) link

Clapton's cover just looks like an old rich dude that wants to make a point to the folks that have picked up the album that he is rich, and you aren't.

The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:25 (eleven years ago) link

I GOT A HAT FOR MY BIRTHDAY = Clapton

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 9 March 2013 18:30 (eleven years ago) link

I feel like the older generation is taking a "well the kids obviously aren't even trying anymore so why should we" stand with these moronic album covers

sleepingbag, Saturday, 9 March 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link

Old Sock is a great title. Looks like he's on a vast expanse of private property.

your fretless ways (Eazy), Saturday, 9 March 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link

Still the ultimate Old Man Swag album cover

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/CloudNineCover.jpg

Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Sunday, 10 March 2013 01:38 (eleven years ago) link

o.t. original troppo

balls, Sunday, 10 March 2013 02:29 (eleven years ago) link

wow @ george harrison

Lucky Money BUddha (Matt P), Sunday, 10 March 2013 03:53 (eleven years ago) link

so so swag

brimstead, Sunday, 10 March 2013 04:03 (eleven years ago) link

the clapton cover is easily the more "I straight do not give a fuck how this looks" in every way - Neil's goin' for something, knows what it is, gets it. Clapton has reached a point of not caring. Neil's is old dude IDGAF swagger. Clapton's is an old dude who does not give a fuck.

available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 10 March 2013 12:42 (eleven years ago) link

that said, yes, "old sock" is a truly incredible album title choice and taken together with that cover should be respected

available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 10 March 2013 12:43 (eleven years ago) link

Streaming ~exclusively~ at the Wall Street Journal:

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/03/05/exclusive-hear-eric-claptons-new-album-old-sock-first/?mod=WSJBlog

your fretless ways (Eazy), Sunday, 10 March 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link

Old Sock more like Old Cock, aren't I right?

Nilmar Garciaparra (Leee), Sunday, 10 March 2013 21:29 (eleven years ago) link

more like bold rock, this album slays

balls, Sunday, 10 March 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Sunday, 31 March 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link

I mean, he could've gone for Old Times, Old Blues, Old Way, Old Man, Old Guitar, Old Blvd., etc., and everyone from Starbucks on up would've been satisfied. But no. He's rattling that gold cage.

munching of foods in my ears etc etc (Eazy), Sunday, 31 March 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link

He took the picture with his iphone... on holiday... in Antigua.

http://youtu.be/JgKBKNLkyw4

What a yoyo this guy is.

mr.raffles, Sunday, 31 March 2013 00:38 (eleven years ago) link

My gf just said he looks like a sex tourist in Thailand.

mr.raffles, Sunday, 31 March 2013 00:39 (eleven years ago) link

It was going to be called '50 Years Adrift in an Old Pontoon."

50 Years Adrift in an Old Pontoon VS Old Sock?

mr.raffles, Sunday, 31 March 2013 00:44 (eleven years ago) link

Whoa. Bowie named the Clapton album!

ok. i'm done now!

mr.raffles, Sunday, 31 March 2013 00:47 (eleven years ago) link

Oh man, if only the Bowie people had put a box with Old Sock on top of 461 Ocean Boulevard.

cougars and sneezers (Eazy), Sunday, 31 March 2013 04:38 (eleven years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Monday, 1 April 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link


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